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Microsoft will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion in a move that is the biggest acquisition of the company’s history. “Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, though, sees the Internet as an essential battleground for Microsoft, a company that still makes…

David Mihm noted that Google Maps listings for businesses now include overlays asking if they are still operating, in the case of unclaimed or Places pages that may no longer be operating. Interesting they do not have a program to check if 0the phone n…

The Friday prior to Mother’s Day, the New York Times reported on the flower industry and link buying. The article titled “Trying to Game Google on ‘Mother’s Day Flowers’” was another in what now seems to be a regular column on major advertisers also us…

During an informative interview, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, warned people that their Facebook, Yahoo and Google information is very accessible to the US government. “Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever b…

Google reported it lost money in Australia last year despite a 50% increase in their revenues compared to 2009, ZDNet noted. “The Australian division of search giant Google has filed its financial accounts with the nation’s corporate regulator stating …

Facebook now dominates display advertising, serving 31.2% of all ads delivered in the first quarter of 2011, VatorNews reported. To fully appreciate the number, Facebook served more ads than the next three: Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL. Guess Google should…

Despite the changes Google has made over the years to reading various forms of information, video and audio still do not get as much play as text-based information in the search results. So to improve their search rankings, PBS has transcribed thousand…